Alexander H. Stephens Quotes

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Alexander H. Stephens

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• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Stocks
  • Plateau

• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes

• O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • Book
  • Philosophy

• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • World
  • Change
  • Relative

• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Death
  • Faithful

• What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Shadow
  • Exist
  • Disappeared

• I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Career
  • Die
  • Mistake

• I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Choices
  • Word
  • Villain

• If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Tree
  • Blue

• The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Home
  • Themselves
  • Reactionaries

• I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • State of Israel

• A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Support
  • Doubt
  • Wall

• True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • War
  • Age
  • Quality

• If the materialistic west is a civilisation without a heart, as we are accustomed to regard it nowadays, ours, on the other hand is one without a soul.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Civilisation

• Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

  

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
  • Time
  • Together
  • Expectations

• Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Firm
  • Obstinate
  • Timid